Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

2018.12.25 (Tue)

【#564】2018 World Characterized by Offensive America and Defensive China

December 25, 2018 　　　　　Looking back international developments in the past year, the most significant movement affecting Japan’s fate might be that predictors of future U.S.-China relations have f...

2018.08.09 (Thu)

【#533】Famed U.S. Scholar Gives up on Maintaining International Order

August 6, 2018 　　　　　Graham Allison, a professor at Harvard University, is known as the proponent of the “Thucydides Trap” theory likening a confrontation between hegemonistic countries to the riva...

2018.08.01 (Wed)

【#531】Trump Is Right in Bashing Germany

July 30, 2018 　　　　　I never imagine that the Japanese nostalgically recall the Japan-Germany alliance during World War II. But not a small number of Japanese people favor Germany. While everyone is...

2018.07.18 (Wed)

【#529】Shock to NATO Likely to Spill over to Japan

July 17, 2018 　　　　　Hastings Ismay, chief military assistant to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II and the first secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organizatio...

2018.05.30 (Wed)

【#516】U.S. Striking Counterblow against China

May 28, 2018 　　　　　Elizabeth Economy, director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a leading U.S. think tank, has contributed a persuasive essay to the May/June issue of Foreign A...

2018.04.25 (Wed)

【#509】Specter of Yoshida Doctrine is Haunting

April 23, 2018 　　　　　The specter of the so-called Yoshida doctrine is haunting in the Japanese political center of Nagata-cho. The doctrine, which called for a lightly armed, economically powerful ...

2018.04.03 (Tue)

【#506】Reviving Confrontation: Japan-U.S.-S. Korea vs. China-N. Korea

April 2, 2018 　　　　　From April to May, summit talks are expected to take place between Japan and the United States, between North and South Korea, and between the United States and North Korea. Ami...

2017.12.27 (Wed)

【#487】Friendly, Objective Study Required for Ally

December 25, 2017 　　　　　This year’s international situation featured North Korea’s reckless nuclear and missile tests, China’s unhesitant, dangerous rise and U.S. President Donald Trump’s unpredict...

2017.11.22 (Wed)

【#481】Trump Lacked Leadership during Asian Tour

November 20, 2017 　　　　　Harsh criticisms against U.S. President Donald Trump by liberal media keen to find his faults must be discounted. Still, I cannot but to admit that his latest Asian grand to...

2017.11.02 (Thu)

【#477】Can We Allow U.S. and China to Dominate Matters in Asia?

October 30, 2017 　　　　　U.S. President Donald Trump will tour five Asian countries -- Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines -- in 12 days from November 3 through 14. Japan, South Ko...